809 search results for “constructing heritage” in the Student website
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Jan KolenFaculty of Archaeology
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Willemijn WaalFaculty of Humanities
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Fenneke Sysling in National Geographic on the Java Man: ‘Scientific proof for Indonesia’s greatness’
Assistant professor Fenneke Sysling spoke in National Geographic about the return of the ‘Java Man’ to Indonesia.
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Legacies: Why Museum Histories Matter
Conference
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Bound for Devotion: The Prayer Book as Object and Practice, 1300–1800
Conference
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52nd Flemish-Dutch Egyptology Day
Lecture
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Berthe JansenFaculty of Humanities
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Monique van den DriesFaculty of Archaeology
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Marcel CobussenFaculty of Humanities
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Martin BergerFaculty of Archaeology
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Michael HerzfeldSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Sophie StarrenburgFaculty of Law
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Marika KeblusekFaculty of Humanities
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Stijn BusselsFaculty of Humanities
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Mariana De Campos FrancozoFaculty of Archaeology
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Laurie Kalb CosmoFaculty of Humanities
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Erik de MaakerSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Verena MeyerFaculty of Humanities
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Luc AmkreutzFaculty of Archaeology
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Angus MolFaculty of Humanities
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Michiel van GroesenFaculty of Humanities
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Rick HoningsFaculty of Humanities
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Elena PaskalevaFaculty of Humanities
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Alicia SchrikkerFaculty of Humanities
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Ariadne SchmidtFaculty of Humanities
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First joint meeting 'Collecting Global Heritage' in Leiden
On Thursday 26 June 2025, the Pavilion of the Wereldmuseum Leiden featured the first joint meeting of Leiden University and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam around the shared research theme Collecting Global Heritage. Some 50 researchers, students and collection managers came together to share knowledge,…
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Policy in Practice At Home Otherwise: Rethinking Heritage through Diversity
This research project investigates diversifying and democratizing heritage through practices of “home-making”. Research may include studies of allotment gardens, displays of immigration histories, and forms of collaborative heritage, mostly in the Netherlands, with possible comparisons elsewhere in…
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Heritage & Material Culture MSc Policy in Practice | Leiden University
Present imaginations of the past and its tangible and intangible dimensions, are a major factor in the ways in which societies, and the various groups which constitute these, imagine themselves. Research Internships that fall within this category are being offered by for example museums, municipalities…
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archaeologists play a role in repatriating Central and South American heritage
On 3 September 2025, more than 30 archaeological objects were returned to Peru, Panama and Costa Rica. The objects come from a private collection belonging to the descendants of physician and amateur archaeologist Dr Hans Feriz. In her will, his daughter stipulated that the objects collected by her…
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Wreck in the Wadden Sea: ‘Objects tell the story’
More than 40 years ago, a wrecked merchant ship was found in the Wadden Sea. PhD student Geke Burger looked at this archaeological find from a historical perspective.
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Beyond Academic Freedom: The Palestinian Condition and the Production of History
Lecture, LUCIS Keynote
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Martine BruilFaculty of Humanities
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Thijs PorckFaculty of Humanities
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Fenneke SyslingFaculty of Humanities
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Collecting Global Heritage
Conference
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Marian KlamerFaculty of Humanities
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Spanish village full of Leiden residents: dozens of textile workers once migrated to Guadalajara
In the Spanish town of Guadalajara, there is a street named ‘Burgemeester Fluiterstraat’, named after a descendant of Leiden migrants who had done well in the South. He was not the only Guadalajara resident with Leiden roots: at the beginning of the eighteenth century, a stream of Dutch textile workers…
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Karel Berkhoff appointed professor by special appointment: ‘Focus on Ukrainian history a milestone’
As of 1 September , Karel Berkhoff has been appointed professor by special appointment in Ukrainian History. In this position, made possible in part by the KNAW, he will focus primarily on dark moments in recent Ukrainian history: the persecutions that have taken place in the first half of the twentieth…
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Anastasia ZhangFaculty of Archaeology
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Aris PolitopoulosFaculty of Archaeology
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Heritage expert Gül Aktürk Hauser investigates climate change adaptation of cultural heritage
Recently, Dr Gül Aktürk Hauser took up the position as Assistant Professor at the department of Heritage and Society. Originally an architect, she got caught up in the study of historical vernacular buildings in northeastern Turkey. Now her focus lies on the impact of climate change on cultural heri…
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Building Future Heritage
Conference
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Remembering through museums, objects, art and more: The heritage of psychiatric institutions and their patients
Faculty Lecture
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Miyuki KerkhofHonours Academy
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Van de Waal Lecture 2025: Shared heritage or cultural appropriation? The Iko-Schmutzer sculptures
Alumni event, Lezing
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(mis-)matches in ATB-movement and implications for theories of sharing constructions
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Caroline WaerzeggersFaculty of Humanities
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Millions in grant funding for research on traumascapes: sites of pain and loss
A consortium led by Leiden University has been awarded 6.75 million euros to research traumascapes: physical places associated with collective trauma and loss. The research team aims to make these places more visible, accessible and inclusive.
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Jan HeblyFaculty of Law
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Building Bridges: How to address sensitive conversation topics in a constructive way? POPcorner The Hague X Meeting Point
Study support, Arts and leisure